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...gives the usual lonely-but-superior Disney heroine a twist: she is a brat who has anger issues. And far from trying to save China or morph from mermaid to human, this Hawaiian handful has no goal loftier than the status quo--to keep living with her frazzled sister Nani (Tia Carrere...
...rounded, black-eyed characters closer to Smurfs than to the keenly defined types of most Disney cartoons. They also borrow roughly from Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki, who in My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service plopped adorable kids into magical situations. (In tribute, the film has Nani open a business called Kiki's Coffee House.) But after a lag in the early sister scenes, Lilo reveals its own very American verve and wit, along with a smart story sense that marks the best animated features, traditional or computerized. When Stitch makes his appearance in a Vegas-Elvis silver...
...below Botswana. BOTTOM LINES "A hedgehog could have crossed any major road in relative safety." Rob Maynard, Royal Automobile Club spokesman, on the absence of a rush hour during England's early-morning Nigeria match "The problem I have is not firepower, it is a shortage of targets." Nani Beccalli, GE Europe CEO, on the company's desire to buy European companies "You're worse than politicians." Tom McNally, member of Britain's House of Lords, on cable executives' evasive answers during hearings on a communications bill
...government, Uys found himself on the road again, this time visiting impoverished schools with a free and very frank show about safe sex called For Facts' Sake. Foreign Aids is not just a consciousness raiser. It's also a fund raiser for charities close to Uys' heart, like Wola Nani, a refuge for HIV-positive teenage mothers. Next year, he plans to add a further 400 schools to the 160 he has already visited. Before then, he will take Foreign Aids to the Netherlands and possibly to New York. His comic treatment of a deadly serious subject has not escaped...
...India has often seemed the most faithful to its U.S.-inspired constitutional ideals. The world's largest democracy included a declaration of "fundamental rights" in its 1949 charter and backed them up by borrowing the U.S. system of judicial review. "Thank God they put in the fundamental rights," says Nani Palkhivala, a constitutional expert who was India's Ambassador to Washington in the late 1970s. He observes, "Since 1947 we have had more harsh and repressive laws than were ever imposed under British rule." Indian courts, however, overturned most of them...